For weeks, a simple egg has been the talk of the town after a photo of the brown oval amassed more than 52 million “likes” — surpassing that of Jenner’s snapshot of daughter Stormi five days after her birth in February 2018.

Now, after weeks of wondering just who was behind the Instagram-breaking photo, the public has finally heard from Chris Godfrey, a 29-year-old advertising creative living in London. Godfrey revealed his identity to the New York Times.

He told the publication that he was inspired after learning that the 21-year-old Keeping Up with the Kardashiansstar held the record for the most “likes” on the social media site.

“An egg has no gender, race or religion. An egg is an egg, it’s universal,” Godfrey said. “Could something as universal and simple as an egg be great enough to beat that record?”

With that, Godfrey teamed up with friends Alissa Khan-Whelan, 26, and C.J. Brown, 29, to take on the challenge. And they succeeded. In just a matter of days, the photo of the lightly speckled brown egg, named Eugene, had toppled Jenner’s record (Jenner’s was just shy of 19 million “likes”).

“People have fallen in love with this egg, and Eugene the egg wants to continue to spread positive messages,” Khan-Whelan told the Times.

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The Egg Has Spoken! The Creator of the Most-Liked Photo on Instagram Has Been Revealed

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